{"id":45,"date":"2011-03-11T00:33:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T08:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-03-11T00:33:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T08:33:53","slug":"location-based-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/2011\/03\/11\/location-based-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Location Based What!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been on a website where an advertisement popped up, promoting something in the same geographic location?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Location Based Marketing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/meetmoi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I do believe that it is absolute genius on the part of a company to target customers that way, I also believe that from a consumer\u2019s point of view, it is a complete turnoff.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, it\u2019s scary! Isn\u2019t it weird to know that not only do these companies know where you live but, they also know what I like. I have a completely empty Facebook profile, very strict and high security settings and regularly clear my cookies but somehow, i\u2019m still being tracked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Location Based Marketing\" src=\"http:\/\/joshuabrett.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/location_based_services.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The funny part is I actually do remember most of the brands offered to me this way. I make sure I never buy from them again. Most of these advertisements are poorly conceived, relying on price as a basis of promotion. In my opinion, they lack creativity tying to entice the consumer by trying to differentiate the product based on price, which strips away almost all value from the product. Quite often they advertise sales\/clearances, something which shows no confidence on part of the company in its product. I hope they stop soon. Because they are really annoying and are eating away at the reputation of the company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/files\/2011\/03\/Untitled1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50\" title=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/files\/2011\/03\/Untitled1-e1299832408255-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/files\/2011\/03\/Untitled1-e1299832408255-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/files\/2011\/03\/Untitled1-e1299832408255.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been on a website where an advertisement popped up, promoting something in the same geographic location? While I do believe that it is absolute genius on the part of a company to target customers that way, I also believe that from a consumer\u2019s point of view, it is a complete turnoff. Honestly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexjoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}